Richard Gildart
b. 1673
d. 1770
Owner of two of the ships contracted to carry out the transportation of Jacobite prisoners (including Alexander Stewart), some of whom were were indentured to work for Gildart (Prisoners of the '45, vol. 1, pp 27-28, 40, 42, 46). Heavily engaged in the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.